Assign a Tag to an Object

After you have created tags, you can apply them as metadata to objects in the vSphere Web Client inventory.

Prerequisites

Required privilege: vSphere Tagging.Assign or Unassign vSphere Tag on the root vCenter Server instance.

Procedure

1. Browse to the object in the vSphere Web Client inventory.
2. From the Actions menu, select Tags & Custom Attributes > Assign Tag.
3. (Optional) From the Categories drop-down menu, select a category to limit the tags displayed to ones from that category.
4. Select a tag from the list and click OK.

Results

That tag is assigned to the object. The assigned tags for each object appear in the list on the Tags tab.